The
book contains my interviews with eminent Russian and Western policy makers
among them Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov, Anatoly Chubais, Sergei Dubinin
(the former central bank chairman under whose watch the ruble collapsed),
Martin Malia (the distinguished historian), George Soros, Strobe
Talbott and Grigory Yavlinsky. The book has an in-depth introduction by me. 2003.

From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery

Columbia University Press, 2011

"Insightful, far-ranging, and complete, yet still manages to be a lot of fun to read." Robert J. Shiller, Yale University.

BREAKING OUT: An Indian Woman's American Journey

Penguin/Viking India, 2012

'Deeply felt, yet unsentimental... [This memoir] places an individual life in the context of the worlds it has travelled with a
gripping and relentless honesty' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

BREAKING OUT: An Indian Woman's American Journey

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, 2012

“An extraordinary memoir. Her mind floats over gender and geography to greet and
entrance your own.” Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge and The Forgotten Man.

“Breaking Out is a brave and eloquent account of the complex conditions and compromises
that connect our professional lives to our personal commitments. Padma Desai has given
us a tale of several cities, many worlds, and a testament to lasting love and
companionship.” Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University.

“A fascinating and inspiring narrative, revealing both the personal
and professional struggles and triumphs of an extraordinary woman.”
—Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus: An Alternative History.

“Deeply felt, yet unsentimental. . . . [P]laces an individual life
in the context of the worlds it has travelled with a gripping and relentless honesty.”
—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2012 Kyoto Prize recipient.

FROM ENGLAND WITH LOVE: AN INDIAN STUDENT WRITES FROM CAMBRIDGE 1926-27, Kalidas Desai

Penguin Enterprise, November 1, 2014

'Written nearly a hundred years ago... and edited with love and literary grace by his daughter Padma, who has also written a striking Introduction, [these letters] should fascinate all interested in "close encounters" between India and England in the colonial period... [evoking] memories of an earlier Cambridge that I am sure other Cantabridgians will also savour' Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, and professor (economics, ethics and law), Columbia University.

'[A] treat for serious historians, as well as for those of us with more amateur and perhaps personal interest in the history of Fitzwilliam College' Nicola Padfield, master, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

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